Joe Montana
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| Joe Montana | |
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| Date of birth | June 11, 1956 (age 50) |
| Place of birth |  New Eagle, Pennsylvania |
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
| Weight | 200 lb (91 kg) |
| Position(s) | Quarterback |
| College | Notre Dame |
| NFL Draft | 1979 / Round 3 / Pick 12 |
| Career Highlights | |
| Pro Bowls | 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1993 |
| Awards | Super Bowl XVI MVP Super Bowl XIX MVP Super Bowl XXIV MVP 1989 AP NFL MVP 1990 AP NFL MVP 1986 AP NFL Comeback P.O.Y. 1989 PFWA MVP 1989 UPI NFC OFF P.O.Y. 1989 Bert Bell Award 1978 Cotton Bowl MVP |
| Honors | NFL 75th Anniversary All-Time Team NFL 1980s All-Decade Team 1990 SI Sports MOY |
| Retired #s | San Francisco 49ers #16 |
| Records | San Francisco 49ers Career Passing Yards (35,124) |
| Stats | |
| Statistics | |
| Team(s) | |
| 1979-1992 1993-1994 |
San Francisco 49ers Kansas City Chiefs |
| Pro Football Hall of Fame, 2000 | |
Joseph Clifford Montana, (born June 11, 1956, in the Pittsburgh area town of New Eagle, Pennsylvania, USA) was a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League. Montana is one of only two quarterbacks who have won four Super Bowls, and Montana is generally considered the greatest quarterback in the history of the NFL. His nickname, Joe Cool, was given to him because of his calm, cool demeanor on the field under the most intense pressure situations.
Montana posted impressive statistics, and led his teams to multiple NFL championships. His San Francisco 49ers teams won 4 Super Bowls (XVI, XIX, XXIII, and XXIV), and Montana is the only player to win 3 Super Bowl MVP awards. In his 4 Super Bowl appearances, Montana never threw an interception or lost a fumble. Montana was also the first player in league history to win 2 consecutive Associated Press MVP awards, which he did for the 1989 and 1990 seasons. In 1990 he received Sports Illustrated magazine's "Sportsman of the Year" award, and he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2000.
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[edit] High school
Montana attended Muskegon High School in Muskegon, Michigan in Michigan's Lumber Capital. He was a standout in football, basketball, and baseball. Montana's breakout moment was against Monessen High, which his center Joe Debranski said "[the] game is what convinced Notre Dame to take Montana." The season-opener rivalry game had Montana's Ringgold High as severe underdogs. But Montana threw three touchdowns and got his team up 21-7 at halftime, even though the final score was a 34-34 tie.
In football he was a 2-year starter, and as a senior he won Parade All-American honors. He turned an 0-9 team into an 8-1 team by his senior year.
In basketball, he led his team to a League Championship as a senior.
[edit] College career
Although he was the best quarterback of all time, he was offered a basketball scholarship to play at North Carolina State University, Montana chose to attend the University of Notre Dame. Joe's center at Notre Dame, Vince Klees stated, "[He came] with good looks, an All-American smile, and a ton of ability." He later stated: "I not only wanted to be the best, I wanted to play with the best. Obviously that meant playing quarterback at Notre Dame."
At first, Montana found himself buried in the Fighting Irish depth chart, although he moved up enough to play as a sophomore. In that 1975 season, Montana came off the bench to lead the Irish to victories over Northwestern, North Carolina and Air Force, with Notre Dame trailing in the latter two contests in the fourth quarter. When Devine sent him in against Northwestern, Montana was so excited that he ran onto the field without his helmet. In Chapel Hill against North Carolina, the Fighting Irish were down in the fourth quarter 14-6 with 6:04 left on a brutally hot day. Montana came in for one of his first appearances and ended up winning the game for the Irish by throwing two touchdowns, one of which was the 80-yard game-winner on an audible to Ted Burgmeier, who was gasping for air after reaching the end zone. Against Air Force, the Irish were trailing 30-10 with 13 minutes left in the game. Montana again won the game for the Irish: this time with three touchdowns drives for a 31-30 win. He started against USC, but was ineffective in a 24-17 loss. A broken finger against Navy sidelined him for the rest of the season.
But it was in a 1977 game versus Purdue that Montana came in off the bench as a third string QB, and as the fourth QB that Irish Coach Devine would insert into the game (after missing the previous year due to a separated shoulder), to provide a spark that allowed Notre Dame to score a comeback victory that first drew him national attention and the nickname "The Comeback Kid." Montana led the Irish from a 24-14 deficit with 11 minutes left to a 31-24 victory. Montana started in every game afterwards and went on to spark his team to the 1978 Cotton Bowl versus the top-ranked and heavily favored Texas Longhorns. Notre Dame never trailed in the game, and stunned the Longhorns 38-10, giving the Irish a national championship.
The following year, the 1979 Cotton Bowl was not just Montana's encore, but also served as the marker on which his name is now forever etched alongside other Notre Dame legends and was far and away his most memorable moment in a Notre Dame uniform. On a freakishly cold day in Dallas, an already flu-ridden Montana was forced to the locker room in the 3rd quarter in order to treat his hypothermia with chicken soup. He returned to the game to lead his team back from a 22-point 4th quarter deficit over the Houston Cougars, winning 35-34 on a touchdown pass with no time left.
Prior to that game, Montana staged a furious fourth-quarter rally against traditional rival USC to put Notre Dame ahead, 25-24 with less than a minute remaining, only to have the Trojans stage a comeback of their own (aided by a questionable official's call) and pull the game out on a last-second field goal.
[edit] Professional career
[edit] San Francisco 49ers; 1979-92
Montana was drafted in the third round (82nd overall) by the San Francisco 49ers in 1979, and played sparingly his first season behind starter Steve DeBerg.
He became the 49ers starting quarterback late in his second season. Against the New Orleans Saints he led a comeback from a 28-point halftime deficit, to a 38-35 overtime victory. That feat still stands (2007) as the most points ever overcome to win a regular season NFL game. It was the first of Montana's 26 4th-quarter comebacks with the 49ers.
In 1981 Montana led San Francisco to a 13-3 record, the best in the NFL. In one of the most memorable games in 49ers history, he led the 49ers on an 11-play, 89-yard drive, ending with a dramatic touchdown pass to Dwight Clark, which came to be known as "The Catch," for a thrilling 28-27 victory over the Dallas Cowboys in the 1981 NFC Championship game. Two weeks later Montana led the 49ers to a 26-21 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals in Super Bowl XVI. For his efforts, which included scoring the first rushing touchdown by a quarterback in Super Bowl history, he was named the game's MVP, as he completed 14 of 22 passes for 157 yards and a touchdown.
In 1982 he improved his Y/A to a then-career-best 7.6, though he played only 9 games (NFL Player's strike).
In a 1983 playoff game against the Detroit Lions, Montana drove the 49ers 70 yards in the final 5 minutes, throwing a 14-yard touchdown pass to Freddie Solomon for a 24-23 victory. The following week in the NFC Championship game, Montana led San Francisco to 3 4th quarter scores to erase a 21-0 deficit against the Washington Redskins; however, the 49ers lost 24-21.
In 1984, the 49ers compiled a 15-1 regular season record, fielding what many consider one of the most dominant teams in NFL history. Montana led a 49er offense that scored 475 points, best in the NFC. He threw 28 touchdown passes with only 10 interceptions, and had a quarterback rating of 102.9. Highlights in the season include a 30-27 victory over Detroit, when he drove the team to a last-second field goal, and a 23-17 win over Cincinnati, in which the 49ers erased a 17-7 deficit with 3 scores in the final 10 minutes. This, despite Montana throwing a career-high 4 interceptions. In Super Bowl XIX, Montana completed 24 of 35 passes for a Super Bowl record 331 yards and 3 touchdowns, outdueling Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino, and leading San Francisco to a 38-16 victory. He also rushed for 59 yards and a touchdown, the most rushing yards ever by a quarterback in a Super Bowl at the time.
The 49er's success during the regular season continued over the next 3 years, but each time, they were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs, and Montana failed to throw a single touchdown in all 3 postseason games.
In 1985 he rushed for 3 touchdowns for the first time in his career.
He also suffered an injury in the 1986 season that forced him to undergo major back surgery, after doctors discovered a ruptured disk as well as a congenital narrowing of the spinal cavity. Montana would return for the last 7 games of the season, helping the then 5-3-1 49ers finish the season at 10-5-1, although it was the only season of his career in which he threw more interceptions (9) than touchdowns (8). The rocky year for Montana would have a unceremonious ending, when he was tackled by Jim Burt in the 2nd quarter of the loss in the playoffs to the New York Giants, 49-3. Montana suffered a concussion due to the hit and missed the rest of the game.
However, he recovered in 1987, throwing for 3,054 yards and a career-high 31 touchdown passes, with only 13 interceptions. However, their 13-2 record was marred by the 36-24 upset loss they suffered in the Divisional Round of the playoffs versus the Minnesota Vikings, where after suffering another vicious hit and appearing shaky, Montana was replaced with Steve Young midway through the game.
In 1988, Montana struggled with various injuries that resulted in several missed starts. He was also involved in a much-publicized battle for the quarterback starting position against Young. After a devastating home loss to the Los Angeles Raiders that left the 49ers with a 6-5 record, the 49ers were in danger of missing the playoffs. Montana regained the starting position, and led the 49ers to a 10-6 record and the NFC Western Division title. The 49ers then faced the Minnesota Vikings in the NFC Divisional Playoffs. Montana threw 3 first-half touchdowns as the 49ers won 34-9. In the NFC Championship game in Chicago, Montana played through bitter, freezing temperatures to throw for 288 yards and 3 touchdowns in San Francisco's surprisingly easy 28-3 win over the favored Chicago Bears. Then in Super Bowl XXIII, Montana had one of the best performances of his career. He completed 23 of 36 passes for a Super Bowl record 357 yards and 2 touchdowns. Despite his great performance, the 49ers found themselves trailing the Cincinnati Bengals 16-13 with only 3:10 left in the game and the ball on their own 8-yard line. But Montana calmly drove them down the field, completing 8 of 9 passes for 87 yards and throwing the game-winning touchdown pass to John Taylor with only 34 seconds left.
1989 proved to be one of the best for Montana and the 49ers. The team finished the season with an NFL-best 14-2 record, and their 2 losses were by a total of only 5 points. Montana threw for 3,521 yards and 26 touchdowns, with only 8 interceptions, giving him what was then the highest single-season quarterback rating in NFL history, a mark subsequently broken by his 49er teammate Steve Young in 1994. He also rushed for 227 yards and 3 touchdowns on the ground, and earned the NFL Most Valuable Player Award. In a memorable comeback win in week 4 against the Philadelphia Eagles, Montana threw 4 touchdown passes in the 4th quarter despite the relentless pass rush from the Eagles defense. He finished with 425 yards passing and 5 touchdown passes in the victory. The 49ers then cruised through the playoffs, easily crushing the Minnesota Vikings 41-13 and the Los Angeles Rams 30-3. Montana threw for a total of 503 yards and 6 touchdowns in both games, without a single interception. Then in Super Bowl XXIV, Montana became the first player ever to win Super Bowl MVP honors for a 3rd time, throwing for 297 yards and a then Super Bowl record 5 touchdowns, while also rushing for 15 yards as the 49ers defeated the Denver Broncos 55-10, the most lopsided score in Super Bowl history.
In 1990, Montana once again led the 49ers to the best record (14-2) in the NFL. He was named by Sports Illustrated as their Sportsman of the Year. A highlight from the season was a rematch with the Atlanta Falcons. Intent on blitzing Montana most of the game, Atlanta's porous defense allowed Montana to throw for a career-best 476 yards passing (49ers single-game record) and 6 touchdown passes (49ers single-game record shared with Steve Young.)
Injured after getting hit by Leonard Marshall during the NFC Championship Game in January 1991, Montana missed all of the 1991 season and most of the 1992 season with an elbow injury (he did appear in a Monday Night Football game vs. Detroit Lions at the end of the '92 season, and was very effective). However, by this point, teammate Steve Young had replaced him at the starting quarterback position.
For most of his career, Montana had sucess under the west coast offense and is the definition of system quarterback.
[edit] Kansas City Chiefs; 1993-94
Montana recovered from his injuries at the end of the 1992 season, but found that he was no longer wanted in San Francisco. Montana, who felt he had more football left in him, was then traded to the Kansas City Chiefs in April 1993. His trade, along with the trade of star Los Angeles Raiders running back Marcus Allen to the Chiefs, generated much media attention and excitement in Kansas City.
The Chiefs mailed three jerseys to Montana. One was number three, his number from Notre Dame, another was number nineteen, which he wore in little league and also briefly in training camp (maybe even pre season) of the 1979 season with San Francisco, and the third was number sixteen, which Hall of Fame quarterback Len Dawson offered to let Montana wear since the organization had retired it. Montana declined Dawson's offer and wore nineteen instead
Montana was injured for part of the 1993 season, but was still able to lead the Chiefs in 2 come-from-behind wins in the 1993 playoffs and reached the AFC Championship Game, where Kansas City lost to the Buffalo Bills. Kansas City has not won a playoff game since 1993. Montana was also selected to his final Pro Bowl at the end of the 1993 season.
Montana returned healthy to the Chiefs in 1994, starting all but 2 games. His highlights included a classic duel with John Elway (which Montana won) on Monday Night Football and a memorable game in week 2 when Montana played against his old team, the 49ers and their new quarterback, Steve Young. In a much-anticipated match-up, Montana and the Chiefs prevailed and defeated the 49ers 24-17. Montana led his team to a final playoff appearance in 1994. Montana retired at the end of the 1994 season. His replacement with the Chiefs was his former back-up in San Francisco, Steve Bono.
[edit] NFL records and accomplishments
Along with his unique ability to stay calm at key moments, Montana earned the nicknames "Joe Cool" and "Comeback Kid" due to his ability to rally his teams from late-game deficits, including 31 4th quarter comebacks. He also earned the nickname "Golden Joe" because he played in California (the Golden State). Among his career highlights "The Catch" (the game-winning TD pass vs. Dallas in the '82 NFC Championship Game) and a Super Bowl-winning 92-yd. drive vs. the Bengals in Super Bowl XXIII are staples of NFL highlight films.
For his career with the 49ers, Montana completed 2,929 of 4,600 passes for 35,142 yards with 244 touchdowns and 123 interceptions. He had 35 300-yard passing games. His career totals: 3,409 completion on 5,391 attempts, 273 touchdowns, 139 interceptions, and 40,551 yards passing. He also rushed for 1,676 yards and 20 touchdowns. His career passer rating was 92.3, 4th-highest all-time, behind his 49er successor Steve Young (96.8), Indianapolis Colt Peyton Manning (94.1), and Arizona Cardinal Kurt Warner (93.5).
Montana holds post-season records for most career touchdown passes (45), and passing yards (5,772) among others. In his 4 Super Bowls, Montana completed 83 of 122 passes, for 1,142 yards and 11 touchdowns, with an impressive zero interceptions, earning him a quarterback rating of 127.8. Montana led his team to victory in each game, and is the only player ever to win 3 Super Bowl MVP awards. He played in 8 Pro Bowls. His success is a combination of Bill Walsh's highly successful West Coast Offense, a team of superstars and Pro Bowlers along with Montana's uncanny ability to find the open man (often the 3rd or 4th option).
[edit] Statistics
[edit] Post-season records and statistics
- 732 passes attempted
- 463 passes completed
- 5,772 passing yards (251.0 ypg)
- 45 passing touchdowns
- 21 passes intercepted
- 34.8 passing attempts per interception in the postseason
- 310 rushing yards
- 10 rushing touchdowns
- 3 Super Bowl MVP awards
- 4 Super Bowl victories
- Zero career interceptions thrown during 4 Super Bowl appearances
[edit] Seasons among the league's top 10
- Pass attempts: 1981-8, 1982-1, 1983-4, 1984-10, 1985-6, 1987-8, 1990-4, 1994-8
- Completions: 1981-4, 1982-2, 1983-3, 1984-7, 1985-3, 1987-2, 1988-10, 1990-2, 1994-9
- Passing yards: 1981-8, 1982-2, 1983-4, 1984-6, 1985-5, 1987-5, 1989-8, 1990-3, 1994-10
- Passing TDs: 1982-1t, 1983-4t, 1984-3t, 1985-2t, 1987-1, 1988-8t, 1989-4, 1990-3
- Adjusted yards per pass: 1980-10, 1981-7, 1982-6, 1983-7, 1984-2, 1985-5, 1987-3, 1988-6, 1989-1, 1990-7, 1993-8
[edit] Among the league's all-time top 50
- Pass attempts: 9
- Completions: 8
- Passing yards: 9
- Passing TDs: 8
[edit] Trivia
- Montana started playing peewee football when he was 8, a year younger than the legal limit. His father listed his age as 9.
- In the spring of 1977, he was a member of the championship team in Notre Dame's popular Bookstore Basketball tournament.
- Married and divorced high school sweetheart and 1st wife Kim Monses after 3 years, in 1977.
- Before the 1979 draft, one scouting combine rated Montana a 6½ (out of 9). The report said: "He can thread the needle, but usually goes with his primary receiver and forces the ball to him even when he's in a crowd. He's a gutty, gambling, cocky type. Doesn't have great tools, but could eventually start."
- During the 1981 season, Coach Walsh made Montana and receiver Dwight Clark practice the end-zone throw after regular practice. This eventually led to the NFC Championship catch, known as "the Catch."
- Montana met his third and current wife, the former model Jennifer Sharon Wallace, when they did a Schick razor commercial. He proposed to her by hiring an airplane with a streamer reading, "Jen, will you marry me?"
- Montana resides in the Lamorinda area outside of Oakland, CA with Jennifer (married on February 24, 1985), and their 4 children, Nathaniel, Nicholas, Alexandra, and Elizabeth. His older son played football at Cardinal Newman High School; the younger plays basketball and football; his daughters attend Notre Dame.
- Oliver Stone named the main character (Tony Montana) in his script for Brian de Palma's 1983 film Scarface after Montana.
- Hosted Saturday Night Live with Walter Payton on January 24, 1987, being one of the few athletes to perform hosting duties. The most popular sketch of the night involved Montana playing a character called Sincere Guy Stu, a straight-forward-talking character whose thoughts always matched his words (thoughts being the character's voice on loudspeaker. The most memorable moment occurred when Montana, heading upstairs to his room to leave his roommate and the roommate's date for the night, mentioned to them that he won't be bothered while the other two were downstairs as he'll be in his room masturbating, which his inner monologue then repeated.
- In the second half of 1987, Montana crossed the picket line and played during the NFL players strike.
- In a loss to the Giants in the 1990 NFC championship game, defensive end Leonard Marshall delivered what Montana says is the hardest hit he ever took - a blind-side sack that bruised his sternum, fractured a rib and knocked him out of the game. Montana said that Marshall snapped back his right hand after they were on the ground, breaking a bone.
- In 1990, Montana was named Sports Illustrated's "Sportsman of the Year."
- Had his own football video games, Joe Montana Sports Talk Football, for the Sega Genesis platform.
- In 1993, the town of Ismay, Montana, temporarily changed its name to Joe, Montana in an honorary gesture.
- During his first year out of football, Montana worked for NBC.
- In Montana v. San Jose Mercury News, (1995), a California Court of Appeal denied Montana's claim that a newspaper's use of his image, taken from its Super Bowl cover story and sold in poster form, violated his right of publicity, holding that the posters represented newsworthy events, and a newspaper has a constitutional right to promote itself by reproducing its news stories. The Court ordered Montana to pay the Mercury News over $20,000 in lawyer fees and court costs, and awarded the paper additional fees for defending the appeal.
- In 1999, The Sporting News ranked Montana # 3 among the 100 Greatest Football Players of All Time, and ranked him # 2 of the 50 Greatest Quarterbacks in 2004. In August 2006 Sports Illustrated rated him # 1 on its list of the Top 10 Clutch Quarterbacks of All Time. [1]
- On September 1, 2006, Montana's high school renamed its stadium after him.
- He also owns horses and produces wine under the label Montagia. [2]
- In 2006 he was alleged to have skipped the Super Bowl pregame show featuring every Super Bowl MVP because the NFL would not give him $100,000 to appear; this was proven to be false. Montana was attending his son's basketball game. He stated on Quite Frankly with Stephen A. Smith that his NFL career resulted in missing many of his two older daughters childhood activities. He simply didn't want to repeat missing those years with his two younger sons. [3]
- Montana is part of the management team at HRJ Capital, a private equity fund-of-funds. Montana had been an associate of founders Harris Barton and Ronnie Lott through their professional careers, and became an investor in the first Champion Ventures fund of funds in 1999, and most recently spear-headed their activities in the real estate sector. As of late 2005, Joe stepped back from day-to-day operations, but remained committed to the firm.
- His son is currently attending De La Salle High School (Concord, California), and is playing as a second stringer for football.
- Montana has become an advocate for controlling High Blood Pressure, after unexpectedly being diagnosed with the disease.
- Appeared in a Billy Ray Cyrus concert video.
- Has done commercials for Fruit of the Loom Underwear, Flexall cream, Ford Trucks, Disneyland, Coors beer, McCormick's GrillMates barbecue sauces & spices, and Mervyns clothing stores, and endorsed DirecTV and Tombstone frozen pizzas.
- Along with several of his 49ers teammates, he is credited with backing vocals on several songs on Huey Lewis & The News' album "Fore!" including the hit single "Hip To Be Square" (they were also featured in the music video).
- Was ranked # 25 on ESPN's Sportscentury's Greatest Athletes of the 20th Century.
- Was ranked # 23 on Sports Illustrated's '40 for the Ages' list.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Joe Montana's Biography and Statistics
- Joe Montana's enshrinement speech : NFL Hall of Fame
- Joe Montana player page at Pro Football Hall of Fame
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story on Joe Montana coming home to New Eagle
- Dave Letterman spends a day with Joe Montana
- Joe Montana at the Internet Movie Database
- Pro-Football-Reference.com - Career Stats
- 49ers Paradise's Joe Montana Biography
- 49ers Paradise's Montana Number Retirement Coverage
- Joe Montana's NFL Career Achievements
- Joe Montana's Notre Dame Career Stats
- The Pennsylvania Football News All-Century Team
| Preceded by Jim Plunkett |
NFL Super Bowl MVPs Super Bowl XVI, 1982 |
Succeeded by John Riggins |
| Preceded by Marcus Allen |
NFL Super Bowl MVPs Super Bowl XIX, 1985 |
Succeeded by Richard Dent |
| Preceded by Jerry Rice |
NFL Super Bowl MVPs Super Bowl XXIV, 1990 |
Succeeded by Ottis Anderson |
| Preceded by Boomer Esiason |
NFL Most Valuable Player 1989 & 1990 seasons |
Succeeded by Thurman Thomas |
| Preceded by John Stallworth† |
NFL Comeback Player of the Year Award 1986 (Co-Award winner Tommy Kramer) |
Succeeded by Charles White |
| Preceded by Steve DeBerg |
San Francisco 49ers Starting Quarterbacks 1980-1990 |
Succeeded by Steve Young |
| Preceded by Dave Krieg |
Kansas City Chiefs Starting Quarterbacks 1993-1994 |
Succeeded by Steve Bono |
| Dallas Texans/Kansas City Chiefs starting quarterbacks |
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| National Football League | NFL's 75th Anniversary All-Time Team |
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Sammy Baugh | Otto Graham | Joe Montana | Johnny Unitas | Jim Brown | Marion Motley | Bronko Nagurski | Walter Payton | Gale Sayers | O.J. Simpson | Steve Van Buren | Lance Alworth | Raymond Berry | Don Hutson | Jerry Rice | Mike Ditka | Kellen Winslow | Roosevelt Brown | Forrest Gregg | Anthony Muñoz | John Hannah | Jim Parker | Gene Upshaw | Mel Hein | Mike Webster | Deacon Jones | Gino Marchetti | Reggie White | Joe Greene | Bob Lilly | Merlin Olsen | Dick Butkus | Jack Ham | Ted Hendricks | Jack Lambert | Willie Lanier | Ray Nitschke | Lawrence Taylor | Mel Blount | Mike Haynes | Dick Lane | Rod Woodson | Ken Houston | Ronnie Lott | Larry Wilson | Ray Guy | Jan Stenerud | Billy Johnson |
| National Football League | NFL's 1980s All-Decade Team |
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Joe Montana | Dan Fouts | Walter Payton | Eric Dickerson | Roger Craig | John Riggins | Jerry Rice | Steve Largent | James Lofton | Art Monk | Kellen Winslow | Ozzie Newsome | Anthony Muñoz | Jim Covert | Gary Zimmerman | Joe Jacoby | John Hannah | Russ Grimm | Bill Fralic | Mike Munchak | Dwight Stephenson | Mike Webster | Reggie White | Howie Long | Lee Roy Selmon | Bruce Smith | Randy White | |
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